[ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng v2.16-rc1

[Karel Zak]

The first util-linux-ng 2.16 release candidate is available at

   ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.16/

Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed.

	Karel


Util-linux-ng 2.16 Release Notes
================================

Release highlights
------------------

libuuid, uuidgen(1) and uuidd(8):
  - the libuuid library has been moved from e2fsprogs to util-linux-ng

switch_root:
  - this NEW COMMAND allows to switch to another filesystem as the root
    of the mount tree.

mount, umount, fsck:
  - don't support linking against obsolete libvolume_id (from udev)


Stable maintenance releases between v2.15 and v2.16
---------------------------------------------------

util-linux-ng 2.15.1 [10-Jun-2009]

 * ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.15/v2.15.1-ReleaseNotes
   ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.15/v2.15.1-ChangeLog


ChangeLog between v2.15 and v2.16
---------------------------------

 For more details see ChangeLog files at:
 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.16/


build-sys:
   - add --disable-libblkid, remove volume_id support  [Karel Zak]
   - add --disable-switch_root  [Karel Zak]
   - add --disable-tls  [Karel Zak]
   - add --disable-uuidd  [Karel Zak]
   - add UTIL_{SET,RESTORE}_FLAGS  [Karel Zak]
   - check for openat() and linux for switch_root  [Karel Zak]
   - cleanup libuuid stuff  [Karel Zak]
   - complete /libs to /shlibs rename  [Karel Zak]
   - enable fsck by default  [Karel Zak]
   - fix blkid.h include for old e2fsprogs  [Karel Zak]
   - fix --disable-uuidd
   - fix headers in mkswap and libblkid  [Karel Zak]
   - fix libuuid Makefile.am  [Karel Zak]
   - fix "make -C" bug  [Karel Zak]
   - rename /libs to /shlibs  [Karel Zak]
cal:
   - Highlight today even when month or year specified  [Rajeev V. Pillai]
   - uClibc has langinfo.h but not _NL_TIME_WEEK_1STDAY.  [Tom Prince]
chrt:
   - don't assume SCHED_BATCH and SCHED_IDLE exist  [Aurelien Jarno]
docs:
   - add missing commands/projects to AUTHORS file  [Karel Zak]
   - refresh TODO list  [Karel Zak]
   - remove obsolete information from fstab example  [Karel Zak]
   - update AUTHORS file  [Karel Zak]
fdisk:
   - (and cfdisk) fix to be consistent about maximum heads  [Chris Webb]
   - add simple test for doslabel stuff  [Zdenek Behan]
hwclock:
   - fix mismatched popen/fclose.  [John Keeping]
ionice:
   - Allow setting the none class  [Jakob Unterwurzacher]
libblkid:
   - add device-mapper snapshot cow device probe  [Milan Broz]
   - blkid_do_safeprobe() has to be tolerant to RAIDs  [Karel Zak]
   - cleanup debug messages and return codes in blkid_do_probe()  [Karel Zak]
   - don't require udev symlinks verification for non-root users  [Karel Zak]
   - fix "hangs forever with partition type mdraid"  [Karel Zak]
   - fix LVM1 probe  [Milan Broz]
   - fix reiserfs name  [Karel Zak]
   - make libuuid optional  [Karel Zak]
   - update man page  [Karel Zak]
libuuid:
   - add --disable-libuuid and LIBUUID_VERSION  [Karel Zak]
   - add .gitignore  [Karel Zak]
   - add info about u-l-ng to man pages  [Karel Zak]
   - import UUID library from e2fsprogs  [Karel Zak]
losetup:
   - add --set-capacity  [Karel Zak]
   - handle symlinks in /dev/loop/  [Mike Frysinger]
   - suggest to use modprobe rather than insmod in losetup.8  [Karel Zak]
lscpu:
   - fix cpuid code on x86/PIC  [Mike Frysinger]
mount:
   - (and fsck) remove libvolume_id support  [Karel Zak]
   - a little clean up info about loopdevs in man page  [Karel Zak]
   - add ext4 to mount.8  [Karel Zak]
   - add ext4 to the list of filesystems in mount.8  [Karel Zak]
   - add info about obsolete vfat options to mount.8  [Karel Zak]
   - cleanup notes about -l option in mount.8  [Karel Zak]
   - fix undefined reference to `security_get_initial_context'  [Karel Zak]
   - move MS_{PROPAGATION,BIND,MOVE} detection  [Karel Zak]
   - use "none" fstype for MS_PROPAGATION mounts  [Karel Zak]
   - use TAG parsing function from libblkid  [Karel Zak]
po:
   - fix typo in French translation  [Olivier Blin]
   - merge changes  [Karel Zak]
   - refresh POTFILES.in  [Karel Zak]
   - update vi.po (from translationproject.org)  [Clytie Siddall]
switch_root:
   - add man page  [Karel Zak]
   - clean up argv[] usage, add -h and -V  [Karel Zak]
   - do recursiveRemove after our root is moved to avoid races.  [Peter Jones]
   - fix coding style  [Karel Zak]
   - fork before cleaning up the filesystem.  [Peter Jones]
   - new command  [Karel Zak]
   - rewrite to use fstatat() and unlinkat()  [Karel Zak]
   - use err.h, clean up return codes  [Karel Zak]
   - use file descriptor instead of path for recursiveRemove()  [Peter Jones]
   - use snprintf() rather tan str{cpy,cat}()  [Karel Zak]
tests:
   - add functions for work withdisk images  [Karel Zak]
   - add mdraid libblkid test  [Karel Zak]
   - don't run some mount tests for non-root users  [Karel Zak]
   - fix 'delete extended partition' checksum  [Karel Zak]
   - fix reiserfs test  [Karel Zak]
   - fix script that creates lscpu dumps  [Karel Zak]
   - move lscpu /proc and /sys dumps to tarballs  [Karel Zak]
   - remove broken Xen dumps for lscpu  [Karel Zak]
umount:
   - clean up help output  [Karel Zak]
uuidd:
   - new command (UUID daemon from e2fsprogs)  [Karel Zak]
uuidgen:
   - new command (from e2fsprogs)  [Karel Zak]

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 Karel Zak  <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
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